Meadow Rue (thalictrum aquilegifolium)
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HP.  Large, dense panicles of pick flowers from June to July.  Found in damp woods and scrub and meadows.  Also known as Columbine Meadow Rue because the leaves look like Columbine leaves.

Milk Thistle (silybum marianum)
P.  Very striking plant for back of the border, as it grows to around 6 ft.  Thistle-like leaves splashed with white and purple thistle flowers.  Many herbal uses, particularly good for the liver.

Ox-eye Daisy (leucanthemum vulgare)

HP.  Masses of large daisy flowers from sometimes as early as May to as late as October.

 

 

 

Quaking Grass (briza media)

P.  Looks like any other patch of grass until the flowerheads appear and these are very pretty diamond-shapped nodding heads.  Found on grassland.

 

 

 

Ragged Robin (lychnis flos cuculi)

P.  Very pretty, raggedy, pink petals.  Ht 1 - 2 ft (30 - 60 cm).  Found in damp meadows, so good for pondside.  Butterfly, bee and moth plant.  Seed origin - Aldington, Kent.

 

 

Red Campion (melandrium rubrum)

P.  Masses of pink-red flowers on this very pretty wildflower.  Makes a good hedgerow plant.  Found by roadsides.  Ht about 2 ft.  Flowers for ages.  More info

 

 

 

Red Valerian (centranthus ruber)

P.  Lanceolate leaves and masses of red-pink flowers.  Good butterfly plant attracting the Comma, Green-veined White, Large White, Small White, Small Tortoiseshell Painted Lady and Red Admiral butterflies.  Also attracts Silver Y moths.  Grows anywhere really, even in walls!

 


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